Santa's footprints / by Walter Retan.--The Christmas lantern / by Cornelia Spencer [pseud.]--The Pottlebys' Christmas promise / by Gertrude Crampton.--At the stroke of Christmas / by Aileen Fisher.--The music box / by Winifred Bromhall.--Slunkey's Christmas / by E.L. Brock.--The Christmas elf / by Elizabeth Yates.--A gift for Gramps / by Aileen Fisher.--The Christmas tree / by K.B. Shippen.--His birthday / by W.R. Brooks.--The wonderful mistake / by Barbara Chapman.--The wren / by M.R. Walsh
Contains the following files:
7.7 Unsorted Christmas cards after 1930
7.8 Unsorted Christmas cards after 1930
7.9 Unsorted Christmas cards after 1930
7.10 Unsorted Christmas cards after 1930
8.1 Unsorted greeting cards up to 1930
8.2 Unsorted greeting cards up to 1930
8.3 Unsorted greeting cards up to 1930
8.4 Unsorted greeting cards up to 1930
8.5 Unsorted greeting cards up to 1930
8.6 Unsorted greeting cards up to 1930
8.7 Unsorted greeting cards up to 1930
8.8 Unsorted greeting cards up to 1930
Notes
Part of the Alfred Angus Murray McPherson collection.
Brandon's City Hall and Opera House opened on New Year's Day 1892 with the Annual Fireman's Ball. The exterior of the building was designed by Brandon architect W.R. Marshall. At the south end was the Opera House, an auditorium formed by an internally exposed framework of delicate iron pillars and trusses. Demonlished in 1971, the limestone rubble of the foundations were turned into a sunken garden located in Princess Park.
Custodial History
See fonds level description of the Alf Fowler collection for custodial history.
Scope and Content
Photo was taken from the northwest corner of 9th Street and Princess Avenue and shows the west side of City Hall.
Notes
History/Bio information taken from the Assiniboine Historical Society's Brandon: An Architectural Walking Tour pamphlet (1982).
Location Copy
A 5" x 7" (b/w) reproduction of the photograph is located with the original.
Storage Range
RG 5 Western Manitoba Manuscript collection - photograph storage drawer
Clark Hall Door (Outside) Student Activity: Student Photo. Backrow at door jam: H.L. MacNeill, next left, J.L. Jordan; 54-57mm from left, 55mm from bottom, Robert Harvey, just above Harvey to left, A.J. Radley, to right, S.H. potter; 25mm from bottom, 62mm from right, A. Rutherford; A.E. Wright
Brandon College female students at a Christmas Party held at Clark Hall. Back Row: Mrs. Darrach, Lottie Finlay, Mrs. Madden, Elsie McLaren, Mary Murray, Santa Claus, Marion Stone. Kneeling: Kay Drake, Marg Blake
Brandon College students stand in front of Clark Hall. “Retiring and incoming Senior and Lady Sticks”. J. B. Thompson and Doris Cochrane, Frank Kerr and Bertha Clark